Mark Mangino was Kansas’ ‘White Whale’

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Kansas football coach Mark Mangino poked a player in the chest during a practice, sparking the super secret internal investigation that everyone’s not doing a good job of keeping secrets about.

Since the poke, the Jayhawks have lost five in a row. They face Texas on Saturday (good luck with that).

At his weekly press conference, Mangino was asked if he’d lost his team.

“Not one bit,” Mangino replied. “I may have lost some people around here, but it’s not the players. Take it for what it’s worth. You decipher and see.”

My decoder ring says he’s talking about athletic director Lew Perkins, who is leading the investigation.

There’s more allegations and, of course, the YouTube video.

And here’s the topper: parking tickets.

Scofflaw Mangino racked up 23 parking tickets for parking in a loading zone near his office between 2004 and 2007, according to the Lawrence Journal-World.

Ticket No. 23 allegedly set Mangino off. The rotund coach tracked

down the student meter maid and chewed the guy’s ass.